Software

∞ Daylite for Mac, iPhone, & iPad [Sponsor]

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Daylite helps you manage your business and your team. Daylite helps you manage your company’s projects, sales opportunities, contacts, tasks, appointments, meetings, notes, and email — on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. For a free 30-day trial visit Marketcircle’s Web site. … Continued

∞ Netflix punts on Qwikster service

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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings indicates the company will not be launching a new Qwikster DVD distribution service after all. He explains the decision in a new blog post at Netflix.com. Hastings raised the ire of customers and investors alike several … Continued

∞ Adobe acquires TypeKit

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Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch announced at the company’s MAX 2011 conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday that Adobe has acquired Typekit, a subscription-based online font service. Typekit enables Web designers to legally license and embed typefaces on their Web pages. … Continued

∞ Google Analytics launches real-time stats

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Google announced to users that it is implementing real-time stats as part of its free analytics offering for web site owners. Real-time stats i something that many publishers use on a daily, hourly or even by the minute to track … Continued

∞ Conversation techniques for designers

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Smashing Magazine: Due to the growing popularity of iterative product development, the spoken word has become an integral part of the design process. The shift in focus from documentation to collaboration has put greater emphasis on communication. Now more than … Continued

∞ The Dead Sea Scrolls online

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Google: Now, anyone around the world can view, read and interact with five digitized Dead Sea Scrolls. The high resolution photographs, taken by Ardon Bar-Hama, are up to 1,200 megapixels, almost 200 times more than the average consumer camera, so … Continued

∞ Analog: Filters for your photos

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Analog makes it easy to apply stunning filters and borders to your photos. There’s tonnes of stylish filters included, and easy sharing to Flickr, Facebook, Picasa and CloudApp. Analog is made by Real Mac Software, the folks behind RapidWeaver, Courier … Continued

∞ How much does a Web site design cost?

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Folyo: If there’s one thing nobody seems to want to talk about, it’s pricing. Most designers don’t publish their rates, and good luck getting a company to tell you how much they paid for their site. The results of this … Continued

∞ QuickBooks 2012 is something less

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Jeffery Battersby, Macworld.com: If you didn’t live in a world where QuickBooks already existed, if there wasn’t another universe that you could look at where there was a program that already does more than QuickBooks for Mac does, if you … Continued

∞ Follower etiquette

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Rob Pegoraro: I first wrote this post on my public Facebook page in May of 2010 as a response to friend requests from readers, publicists and other people whom I hadn’t actually met. Since then, things have changed: Facebook’s privacy … Continued

∞ Facebook denies it tracks users

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Emil Protalinski for ZDNet: “Facebook does not track users across the web,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. “Instead, we use cookies on social plugins to personalize content (e.g. Show you what your friends liked), to help maintain and … Continued

∞ Couch commerce

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Shoppers are starting the holidays earlier this year. While Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales have become the norm in retail today, PayPal’s data indicates that another spike in holiday shopping is emerging. Right after dinner on Thanksgiving Day, shoppers … Continued

∞ I follow people, not companies

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I was having a beer and talking to someone at WWDC (I can’t remember who — probably the beer’s fault) and he pointed out something that is true for me too. I follow people, not companies. That holds true for … Continued

∞ Having a voice

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I don’t usually link to articles written about me, but this one is different. Chris Martucci emailed me a few questions on how I choose what to post on The Loop. I looked at his site and like it, so … Continued

∞ Remembering Jim Henson

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Google is paying tribute to Henson on its homepage for the next 36 hours. Truly one of the great talents of our time.

∞ Pixelmator

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Many thanks to Pixelmator for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS feed for the past two weeks. Pixelmator is the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editing app for Mac OS X that has everything you need to create, edit and … Continued

∞ Be a publisher, not a republisher

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Matt Gemmell on publishing services like paper.li: Newspapers contain editorial. There’s some kind of journalistic contribution, however brief, in each article. With these online “newspapers”, there’s zero. It’s just a wad of links and extracts, styled to appear something like … Continued

∞ Facebook Timeline and other announcements

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Macworld: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a bevy of features for its social network, including one called Timeline that allows you to chronologically chart your entire life via pictures, Facebook updates, Likes, and places you’ve traveled to and lived. That … Continued

∞ Company trains adults with Asperger's to do software QA

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CBS News: Turns out, traits that make great software testers – intense focus, comfort with repetition, and memory for detail – also happen to be characteristics of autism. Aspiritech, a nonprofit in Highland Park, Ill., nurtures these skills while forgiving … Continued

∞ Meg Whitman being considered for CEO of HP

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Kara Swisher: Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is being considered by Hewlett-Packard directors as a possible candidate for CEO, in a move that would replace its current leader Léo Apotheker, according to several sources close to the situation. I wonder … Continued

∞ Facebook makes News Feed, Ticker changes

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Facebook users got an eyeful on Wednesday when they launched their Web browsers to be greeted with a new home page interface containing some changes. In a posting on the Facebook Blog, engineering manager Mark Tonkelowitz explained some of the … Continued